Just picked up mine tonight, happily surprised to get the call yesterday from my go-to store in Toronto, Aden Camera, been dealing with them for almost 15 years now, so good relationship with your local supplier helps.

Anyway, I have seen some amazingly great image quality shots from an acquaintance's Nikon AF-S 80-400 version II, the images are so good I kept thinking they were taken from a prime lens, and he keeps telling me it's his newly acquired zoom, I just find it hard to believe when compared to the two original EF100-400 I've owned over the last 15 years.

I am hopeful that this new EF100-400 II will be as good as the Nikon unit, and even more hopeful that it will knock the socks of the Nikon.

It might be a few days before I get to try it out with the 1D MK-IV I picked up a year ago, they should be a great combination for my airshow shots next year.

Great to see this lens with a 1.4TC and a 7DII, as hopefully by this time next year I will have that combo (well I already have the 1.4 TC, so that's a start). Looking forward to being amazed by what seems a very promising lens. Was it worth the wait from the original one?

Geordie Amanda wrote in post #17338289Great to see this lens with a 1.4TC and a 7DII, as hopefully by this time next year I will have that combo (well I already have the 1.4 TC, so that's a start). Looking forward to being amazed by what seems a very promising lens. Was it worth the wait from the original one?

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